I'd like to know the loft of my irons

[Brett]

I just started playing about 6 or 7 weeks ago and I am hopelessly addicted. Right now I'm playing with my RAM G-Force Tour set, which consists of 11 clubs (Driver, 3 and 5 wood, 4 hybrid, 5-PW, and putter). This is working okay for me now as I get started, but I am anticipating that i will want add a wedge or two at some point, and so i would like to know the lofts on my irons so that i can pick out wedges that will fit in well. Does anyone know or can anyone tell me how I might go about finding out? Its a 2009 set, if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help, and its good to be here!

Brett

[arogolf]

Have you googled it for the specs? Or try and find a clubmaker/fitter with a mitchell machine, they will be able to tell you, your local golf store might hav it...

[shades9323]

Originally Posted by Brett

I just started playing about 6 or 7 weeks ago and I am hopelessly addicted. Right now I'm playing with my RAM G-Force Tour set, which consists of 11 clubs (Driver, 3 and 5 wood, 4 hybrid, 5-PW, and putter). This is working okay for me now as I get started, but I am anticipating that i will want add a wedge or two at some point, and so i would like to know the lofts on my irons so that i can pick out wedges that will fit in well. Does anyone know or can anyone tell me how I might go about finding out? Its a 2009 set, if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help, and its good to be here!

Brett

You can contact ram at:

http://www.ramgolf.co.uk/contact.htm

Or you can take them to a golf store to have them check the lofts.

[dbuck]

Ram's website doesn't seem to have any specs but those would only be nominal anyway. Actual clubs will often vary from what the mfg's published specs are.  If you can find a good club man, he can measure and determine the actual loft of your clubs. In some cases it is possible to bend the clubs to adjust the loft to proper specs.  Don't get too "bent" out of shape (pun intended) on lofts relative to other brands--the important thing is to learn how far you hit your clubs and to have a proper gap--usually 3-5 degrees for most folks-- between your irons. As your swing develops and becomes consistent this will mean a little more than now.  I would imagine that if you took your 5 and 6 iron and hit 15 balls with each, the center of the two patterns would not be that far apart. As your swing becomes more consistent, this gap will widen a bit, and this is where the lofts become more important. Conventional wisdom is to strive for around a 10-12 yard separation for a full shot, but with some overlap.